He didn’t speak with the media afterwards and coach Travis Green only said the centre had suffered a “small” injury.

The MRI could just be precautionary, of course.

If Horvat isn’t able to play versus the Flyers Thursday, expect either Sam Gagner or Markus Granlund to slide in to his spot on the top line with Brock Boeser and Nikolay Goldobin and Alex Burmistrov to fill in further down the centre rotation.